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  • In the future the optimal form of industrial organization will be neither small companies nor large ones but network structures that share the advantages of both.

    Francis Fukuyama (1995). “Trust: the social virtues and the creation of prosperity”, Free Pr
  • To truly esteem oneself means that one must be capable of feeling shame or self-disgust when one does not live up to a certain standard

    Mean   Self   Feelings  
    Francis Fukuyama (2006). “The End of History and the Last Man”, p.303, Simon and Schuster
  • Be afraid of the Chinese. I mean, the Chinese shoot down satellites in space; they hack into Google's computers; the Osama bin Laden people can't make their underwear blow up.

    Mean   Blow   Space  
    "The Colbert Report", May 02, 2011.
  • China is never going to be a global model. Western system is really broken in some fundamental ways, but the Chinese system is not going to work either. It is a deeply unfair and immoral system where everything can be taken away from anyone in a split second.

    Taken   Broken   Chinese  
  • The desire for economic prosperity is itself not culturally determined but almost universally shared

    Francis Fukuyama (1995). “Trust: the social virtues and the creation of prosperity”, Free Pr
  • Neoclassical economics ... has uncovered important truths about the nature of money and markets because its fundamental model of rational self-interested human behavior is correct about 80% of the time.

  • It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging self-identity of the master

    Self   Desire   Identity  
    Francis Fukuyama (2006). “The End of History and the Last Man”, p.198, Simon and Schuster
  • The passing of Marxism-Leninism first from China and then from the Soviet Union will mean its death as a living ideology ... . For while there may be some isolated true believers left in places like Managua, Pyongyang, or Cambridge, MA.

    Mean   Unions   May  
    Francis Fukuyama, United States Institute of Peace (1990). “A Look at "The end of history?"”, United States Inst of Peace Pr
  • Economic activity is carried out by individuals in organisations that require a high degree of social co-operation

  • If networks are to be more efficient...this will come about only on the basis of a high level of trust and the existence of shared norms of ethical behavior between network members

  • What Asia's postwar economic miracle demonstrates is that capitalism is a path toward economic development that is potentially available to all countries. No underdeveloped country in the Third World is disadvantaged simply because it began the growth process later than Europe, nor are the established industrial powers capable of blocking the development of a latecomer, provided that country plays by the rules of economic liberalism.

    Country   Block   Europe  
    Francis Fukuyama (2006). “End of History and the Last Man”, p.103, Simon and Schuster
  • For capitalism flourishes best in a mobile and egalitarian society

    Francis Fukuyama (2006). “The End of History and the Last Man”, p.120, Simon and Schuster
  • If people who have to work together in an enterprise trust one another it is because they are all operating to a common set of ethical norms....such a society will be better able to innovate...since the high degree of trust will permit a wide variety of social relationships to emerge.

  • The nation will continue to be a central pole of identification, even if more and more nations come to share common economic and political forms of organization.

    Francis Fukuyama (2006). “The End of History and the Last Man”, p.244, Simon and Schuster
  • As a piece of travel literature alone, 'The Ends of the Earth' succeeds in providing a tangible sense of the sweaty, smelly reality of many exotic points on the map, with glimpses of their cruelty but also, occasionally, of beauty and human kindness. As a piece of analysis, it is deeply thought-provoking.

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Francis Fukuyama

  • Born: October 27, 1952
  • Occupation: Political scientist